Mastering Time-Based Anesthesia Billing: A Guide to Boost Accuracy and Revenue

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  Anesthesia billing is a unique and intricate component of medical billing that differs significantly from other specialties. Unlike procedures billed on a per-service basis, anesthesia is often billed based on the duration of the service—making time-based billing a critical factor in accurate reimbursement. Let’s break down what time-based anesthesia billing entails and how practices can optimize their billing processes to avoid costly errors and delays. What is Time-Based Anesthesia Billing? Time-based anesthesia billing involves calculating charges based on the total time the anesthesiologist spends with a patient. This typically includes: Preoperative preparation Administration and maintenance of anesthesia Post-anesthesia care until the patient is no longer under the anesthesiologist’s care The billing formula generally looks like this: Total Units = Base Units + Time Units + Modifying Units Base Units : Determined by the specific surgical procedure perfor...

The Struggle of Primary Care Physicians with Dynamic Medical Billing Rules

 

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Medical Billing a Challenge for Struggling Primary Care Practices

Medical billing is a complex process and it’s always been a reason for the struggle of primary care physicians. In addition, their practice is often overwhelmed with constantly changing information, including protocols and billing codes which makes the situation more challenging.

When the covid-19 pandemic strains the U.S. healthcare system, primary care physicians were working to educate their patients, employ safety protocols, and handle large volumes of calls. This large volume of calls is creating administrative hurdles and operational challenges. Hence in response, many primary care practices are making changes to their medical billing processes to accommodate new patient needs.

The recent release of the Medicare physician fee schedule final rule from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) contains new hope for struggling primary care physicians and you will get to know about it in the following brief.

Add-on Code G2211

The CMS feels the need to compensate physicians and other qualified healthcare professionals for the inherent complexity of primary care and other office visits hence CMS is moving forward with add-on code G2211.

You may separately list this add-on code in addition to office/outpatient (E/M) visits for new or established patients (i.e. codes 99202-99215). Also, you can use this code even when the E/M visit is done via telehealth as this code is permanently added to the Medicare telehealth list by CMS. One important point you need to consider here is the code’s Medicare payment allowance will be approximately $15.88, but will vary geographically.

To know more about the struggle of primary care physicians with dynamic billing rules and examples that can help you to understand, click here: https://bit.ly/3ruoVyY Contact us at info@medicalbillersandcoders.com888-357-3226.

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